Francisco de Ceballos

Francisco de Ceballos (9 October 1814-9 March 1883) was Captain-General of Spanish Cuba from July 1872 to April 1873, succeeding Blas Villate and preceding Candido Pieltain y Jove Huervo. He was also a Conservative Party of Spain senator from 1876 to 1883.

Biography
Francisco de Ceballos was born in Torrelavega, Spain in 1814, and he served in the Spanish Army during the First Carlist War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1838. In 1845, he was sent to Spanish Cuba to serve as Vice Governor of Cienfuegos and Vice Governor of Santa Clara, and he reorganized the public administration and devoted great attention to public charity; he also quelled Narciso Lopez's secessionist revolt. He returned to Spain in 1859 and was promoted to Colonel, and he fought in the First Morocco War. He was unhorsed while quelling an 1866 revolt against Queen Isabella II of Spain, who made him a Field Marshal, and he also stifled a republican revolution in Andalusia in 1868. From 1872 to 1873, he returned to Cuba to serve as Captain-General, and he later returned to Spain to serve as Minister of War from 1875 to 1879. In 1876, he was made a Senator for life, and he died in 1883.